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Best movies of the decade

by onlysoxfaninboston on Dec 12, 2009 5:22 PM EST Comment 225 comments

I was thinking about the previous fanpost on music and was thinking along similar lines for music, regardless of format, language, popularity, year it was produced, etc, movies are far more accessible now in the digital age. Most of the movies I list are foreign..the Bourne series was borderline for me, I think that series lifted the bar for spy/action thrillers

Crouching tiger hidden dragon

In the mood for love

Y tu mama tambien

Lord of the rings trilogy

L'enfant

Pan’s labyrinth

The wind that shakes the barley

The lives of others

28 days later

Documentaries - Farhenheit 911, helvetica, we jam econo

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Miller excluded from HoF (again)

For the idiots who say that the hall of fame is meant for those who played the game, well, it's not. Owners and execs can get in, like Bowie f'n Kuhn, so Marvin Miller should, it's as simple as that.

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Damon to White Sox?

Am I da man? Isn't this guy like 40 something now?

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Williams' head abused at facility

Good stuff: "Larry Johnson says in the book "Frozen: My Journey Into the World of Cryonics, Deception and Death" that he watched an Alcor official swing a monkey wrench at Williams' frozen severed head to try to remove a tuna can stuck to it. The first swing accidentally struck the head, Johnson contends, and the second knocked the tuna can loose."

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2009 Prospect Duds: Dayan Viciedo

Viciedo’s .692 OPS versus right-handed pitchers is cause for concern, as are the scouting reports that focused more and more on his lack of conditioning, which no doubt hindered him at the plate, as well as in the field. He showed worse range than Oakland’s Brett Wallace, widely considered to be a first baseman playing third base (especially based on his range). Unfortunately for Viciedo, he has yet to display enough power to be an asset at first base, and he lacks the mobility for even left field. The Cuban also performed poorly in a small sample size as the designated hitter in double-A, which could be a result of his focus issues.

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"I'm not much for cards but I think these .45's beat a full house" : We're playing Bmore yo, it's time for another Wire thread!

by onlysoxfaninboston on Aug 21, 2009 8:50 AM EDT Comment 28 comments

OM said some crazy shit the other day about Burrell being less intelligent than Rawls. The thread got shat on subsequently...well to prevent similar episodes this weekend, you can shit all you want about the Wire, but on this thread... proposed topics:

Weebay vs Chris

Jew lawyers

The Olsen twins

I'm off to Denmark for a 'real' vacation in several hours. If I see any racist political cartoons in the name of free speech, I'll post them on SSS and cause a riot in SBnation

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OT music thread: indie rock, when it used to be the electric white boy blues

by onlysoxfaninboston on Aug 12, 2009 1:14 PM EDT Comment 56 comments

I experienced another whoosh when MM posted a Mountain Goats reference that slipped by me...I've fallen behind the indie rock times...I've become old and crotchety and everybody's an asshole in my eyes. They just don't make indie music like they used to (big exception is No Age). And if there was a WCKG for indie rock, I would be the DJ playing "The Freed Pig" by Sebadoh at least 5x from 9-5, Monday through Friday.

Anyway, I recently made a mix that comprised the nuggets from the artists I used to listen to heavily from 1988 up to 1999. Neither is the time period nor the artists I chose were random. For example, I left out REM, the Replacements, the Smiths, Housemartins, Go-Betweens, most of the groundbreaking indie music from SST and Touch and Go. In proper order:

Tortoise - Gamera

Stereolab - Au grand jour

Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube

Heavenly - Tool

The Clean - I wait around

Teenage Fanclub - Everything flows

Pavement - Date with IKEA

Superchunk - It's so hard to fall in love

Dinosaur Jr - Just like heaven

Vaselines - Son of a gun

Guided by Voices - Teenage FBI (alternative version)

Belle and Sebastian - The state i'm in

Sea and Cake - Jacking the ball

Modest Mouse - Polar opposites

Pixies - Wave of mutilation (surf version)

Jesus and Mary Chain - Just like honey

Other notes: I'm holding back on the shows I'm seeing this fall because I'm saving up for a big move during the winter months, but I will see the Dirty Three and Os Mutantes (!!!) in September and October.

Cheers,

OSFIB

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